No browser in Windows 7 in EU — European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. — Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. — The company said it would make it easy for PC makers and users …

Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance — Those who want added protection for their new iPhone 3G S units on launch day will have the option of queuing up at Best Buy to purchase both Apple's device as well as a rare accident insurance plan, albeit one which may cost almost as much as the phone itself.

@DellOutlet Surpasses $2 Million on Twitter — There was some buzz back in December around Dell generating over $1 million in revenue by posting offers and responding to questions on Twitter.com/DellOutlet— there's still mention of it on Twitter even today.

Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone — The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit,” spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. — The Internal Revenue Service proposed …

Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days — Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world's fastest …

Zynga Could IPO In 18 Months — A source close to social games maker Zynga tells us that the widely-circulated estimate of its projected revenues for 2009, about $100 million, is “conservative.” — It wasn't the first time we heard it. So when a Silicon Valley executive who interviewed …

Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone — We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast, and then do a Google search.

Microsoft Internal Startup Exec To Leave — Sanjay Parthasarathy, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) corporate vice president who oversees the company's Startup Business Accelerator group—which was set up last year with the charter of building new businesses for the company—is leaving Microsoft, paidContent has learned.

Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business — The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: — In denial. — There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure …

Palm Pixie Is Real, But May Never Come To Market — Lots of excitement today over a second Palm WebOS device now that the Pre has launched. The only problem is that none of this is news. We broke the story about the device, code named Pixie, on April 29. A day later we had the Pixie name and additional details.

HTC Snap Available For Sprint Users — The smartphone has an “Inner Circle” button designed to open a filtered in-box that only shows messages from predetermined contacts. — HTC's Snap smartphone is now available for Sprint Nextel customers, and it's designed to keep mobile professionals connected on the go.

PlayStation Prez On Leaks — You have to feel bad for Sony. By any normal standards, the company's press conference at E3 should have had jaws on the floor. — A new portable gaming system. A motion sensing game controller. A greatly increased focus on digital distribution.

Amazon.com settles with Toys “R” Us, will pay $51 million — Amazon.com has settled its longstanding lawsuit with Toys “R” Us and will pay the toy company $51 million, Amazon said in a regulatory filing Friday. The two companies formed a major ecommerce alliance in 2000 but the partnership dissolved …

How Facebook Uses Your “Skipped” Webmail Contacts — Yesterday, Facebook suggested two people to me through its “Suggestions” feature which usually includes friends of friends, co-workers and people I used to go to school with. The odd thing about these two suggestions was that although …

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